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The Avicenna Canon Medicinae – An Illustrated Medical Book From 13th Century Paris
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Iris Murdoch Through 3 Great Works in Philosophy and Literature
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4 Facts About Feyerabend’s Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge
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Views of Polar Regions: Watercolours By Queen Victoria’s Spy
Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an...
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Illustrator Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776 – 21 September 1859) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, natural historian, soldier, explorer, writer and spy. That’s quite the package for a man who produced these drawings and...
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Hunter S Thompson Sets Fire To His Christmas Tree (1990)
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“’NO, HUNTER, NO! PLEASE, HUNTER, DON’T DO IT!'” – Hunter S. Thompson’s secretary Deborah Fuller before the writer torched his Christmas Tree In January 1990, Sam Allis was on assignment for TIME magazine at writer Hunter S. Thompson’s (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) home...
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Charles Darwin: 5 Key Facts About His Life and Work
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Facing the Other: Emmanuel Levinas on the Face-to-Face Encounter
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Did Jesus Teach Stoic Philosophy?
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Ancient Papyrus Reveals Plato’s Final Hours
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Why Did Plato Think that Education Could Replace Law?
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The Treaty of Versailles: An Overview of Its Contents & Effects
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The Young British Artist Movement (YBA): 10 Famous Artworks You Should Know
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American Noir: Mugshots And Crimes From A Small Pennsylvanian Town (1930s – 1950s)
Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles...
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
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Things To Come : The 1950s Science Fiction Book Club Newsletter
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Things To Come was the monthly newsletter (originally bi-monthly) of publisher Doubleday’s Science Fiction Book Club (SFBC). The short, typically four-page issues promoted the book club’s coming selections and best of volumes from Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
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Derek Jarman’s Home In Dungeness: Where Jesus Walked In The Garden
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Before a run of Derek Jarman’s (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) The Garden at New York’s Metrograph theater, the British director spoke about his own garden and his house at Dungeness on the coast of Kent in England. Jarman made The Garden on the grounds of his seaside...
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The Life of Lu Xun: Writing on China at a Crossroads
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At Home With Candy, Andy and the Bearandas, A Terrifying Children’s Comic From 1966
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In 1966, Candy and Andy lived with their parents, Mr and Mrs Bearandas above a toy shop in a typical English village called Riverale, going about the place in their rainbow-striped Mini. For a year, their everyday lives were documented in 154 comic books ( ‘the comic full of fun...
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How One Tiny Island Took on the Ottoman Empire and Won
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Ada Lovelace: Get to Know the World’s First Computer Programmer
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The Year's Midnight.
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The Phoenician Spoken & Written Language: What You Need to Know
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The Hero's Ride (1963)
This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an...
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963. It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it.
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What Is the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics?
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How Slavery in Ancient Rome Drove Farmers to Poverty
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How Did Emperor Nero’s Reign End?
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Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained
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Helter Skelter: Who Was Charles Manson?
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The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World
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The Rebirth of Chivalry is Rained Off
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In their own...
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7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero
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The Women’s War Breaks Out
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Mole Rocket (1965)
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Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing.
Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965.
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Red Herring: Moments in Films That Leave You Shocked
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How Ancient Greece Shaped the British Raj
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Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019
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Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden
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7 European Powers Involved in the Scramble for Africa
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The Beatles Created a Painting While Touring in Japan
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Anne of Cleves: The Wife King Henry Loved Most?
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Let's Fly to the Universe (1962)
A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012...
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A rescan project, but a rescan of a reprint. I blogged about this book in 2012 here:
https://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/flying-in-space-1961.html
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7 Historical Places to Visit in Wiltshire
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a brief note on Trade and Travel in the ancient Sahara and beyond.
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Peckham Banksy Art Removed by Two Men
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Photographer Photobombs Families In Their Homes (1973)
For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom...
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For his series Met mijn gezin (With My Family), made in 1973, Dutch photographer Hans Eijkelboom rang the doorbells of strangers’ houses. Having waited the man of the house to leave, Eijkelboom would ask the woman who answered the door to pose in a family portrait with him in the...
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Study Reveals Origins of the Knight’s Tombstone in Jamestown
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Early civilizations of ancient Africa and the pre-Aksumite civilization of the northern Horn.
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Can Violence Be Justified? A Philosophical Approach
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Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity
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Gumby and Pokey Coloring Book (1966)
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Can the Real King Arthur Be Identified as Athrwys of Gwent?
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The Fate of Jewish Art Collections in WWII: 20 Looted Families
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A Wasting Asset?
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Writing Templates From A Beautiful German Printing Book, c. 1880
Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and...
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Created by Peter Federmann, these writing templates were for painters, stonemasons, architects and drawing schools. They were printed and published by J. Veith of Karlsruhe, Germany around 1880 as ‘Schriften Vorlagen zum Praktischen Gebrauche für Maler, Steinhauer, Architecten...
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7 Historical Places to Visit on the Isle of Skye
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What Are the Origins of the True Crime Genre?
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The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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What Inspired Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog?
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The Year of Failing To Understand.
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10 Facts You Didn’t Know about the Hoover Dam
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Is Calligraphy Considered Art?
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Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew: Sexist or Subversive?
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Omega: The Last Days of the World – Camille Flammarion’s Visions of A Dying Planet (1883)
‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical...
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‘The most deadly pestilence would have carried far less terror to the heart than the astronomical prediction on every tongue; it would have made fewer victims, for already, from some unknown cause, the death-rate was increasing. At every instant one felt the electric shock of a...
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Dutch & Flemish Vanitas Paintings: A Theme for the North’s Golden Age
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4 Novels by John Steinbeck You Should Read
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How the Athenian Empire Caused Its Own Collapse
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The Powers of Soviet Puppetry
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What Makes Jean-Luc Godard An Iconic Film Director?
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Pontius Pilate: The Man Who Sentenced Jesus Christ to Death
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What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of July. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
Slide Rule, released a little slide rule toy(Mastodon).
100r.co,...
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Fixing Time In 1970s and 80s England: Ian Macdonald Shows Us A Changing World
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Ian Macdonald’s black-and-white film photography from the 1970 and 80s shows us children’s at school, heavy industry, steel works, Redcar blast furnace, Smith’s Dock Shipyard, houseboats and life in Cleveland and Teesside, England. “The blast furnace has a drama and beauty to...
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The desert town of Southern Africa: A history of Khauxanas 1780-1906
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David Roberts & Frederick Catherwood: Artists of Ancient Egypt & Maya
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Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We?
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Patron Saint of Ireland: Who Was St. Patrick?
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What Was Jim Crow?
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Louis Pasteur: The Scientist Who Discovered Vaccines & Pasteurization
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Start to Infinity (1978)
A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian...
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A little over my usual 1975 limit but I just dug this one out of storage. It is basically a Russian space history book for children. I like the painted illustrations.
Shurlygin, Victor. СТАРТ В БЕСКОНЕЦНОСТЬ (Start to Infinity.) Leningrad: Children’s Literature Press. (158...
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William S. Burroughs: Love is The Painkiller and Cats Are the Cure
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What Were The Four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece
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8 Historical Places to Visit in Devon
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Byzantine Bishops at War with Women
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Cronus: The Titan Leader in Greek Mythology
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Street Walker: Dynamic America In The 1970s
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11 Amazing Rooms & Artworks in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj
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10 Myths About the Greek Goddess Athena
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The Extraordinary Story of Dido Elizabeth Belle
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Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
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Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop. ...
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What Is Mithraism? The Secretive Cult That Swept the Roman World
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On the Spot: Chris Clark
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A History of the House of Savoy: From Its Origins to Its End
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In 1957, a B-36 nuclear bomber accidentally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb while landing at Kirtland Air Force Base just outside of Albuquerque NM. In January 1950, President Harry Truman announced that the United States would begin a crash program to develop and deploy a weapon...
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10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit
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Who’s in the Tomb?
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Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
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René Descartes’ Legacy: The Persistence of Mind-Body Dualism
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Why Do People Love or Hate John Calvin?
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The Last Question: Hear Leonard Nimoy Read Isaac Asimov’s Best Short Story
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Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) liked one of his stories above all others – more than the 500 or so stories he wrote or edited, including the bestselling I, Robot, the Foundation series and Lecherous Limericks. The story is The Last Question. First published in the...
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Ernest Shackleton & Endurance in the Antarctic
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1920s Flappers: An Overview of the Ladies of the Jazz Age
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Res Obscura
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Fascists vs. Communists: Spanish Civil War’s Outside Influences
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‘The World at War’ and the Holocaust at 50
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Euripides’ Lost Plays
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6 Artworks Inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s Famous Novel
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Why Does Nietzsche Reject Morality?
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How Do Europe’s Cold War Divisions Persist?
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What Does the Mad Hatter Symbolize in Alice in Wonderland?
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10 Unmissable Masterpieces in the Louvre
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Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
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The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants. Via University...
Global Inequality...
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A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America
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Denim was G.I. in wartime America. Originally used as heavy industry, utility workwear, these images mostly from the 1940s, show how the fabric became synonymous with American grit and productivity. The look was born in 18th Century Europe. Bleu de Gênes was the rough fabric...
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How Did a Pig End Up on Trial in the Middle Ages?
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Maelgwn Gwynedd: Historical King of the Arthurian Legends
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What Are The Most Popular Myths About the Council of Nicaea?
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How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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What Caused the Salem Witch Trials?
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4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles
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When Henry VIII Met Francis I: The Field of the Cloth of Gold
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Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos
During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh. When I was just a baby my mama told...
African History...
An episode of Naval warfare on the East African coast: the Sakalava invasions of 1792-1817
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Between Madagascar and the Swahili world.
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Jackie Kennedy’s Georgetown Mansion Goes on Sale
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Why Are There Two Virginias?
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Can Stoicism Improve Personal and Professional Relationships?
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The Walls of Jericho: Biblical Truth or Historical Propaganda?
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What Ere Iyaric and “I and I”? Rastafarian Resistance Through Language
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Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
Arthur Cravan: The Disappearing Dadaist
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How Did Christianity Affect Japanese Immigration to America?
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11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know
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Marathon: 7 Sites & Museums to Visit
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Christian Ethics vs Secular Ethics: What’s the Difference?
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A Minority Stake Acquisition at Sotheby’s
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What Are the 8 Best Art Attractions in Budapest? (local tips)
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Egyptian Temples: How the Egyptians Depicted the Universe in Microcosm
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What Is Skepticism? (A Philosophical Approach)
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Ancient Rome’s Failed Building Projects
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Classical Wisdom
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Does FREE WILL Exist?
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And if not, what are the consequences?
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The Rise and Fall of the Akkadian Empire
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Was Andy Warhol Religious?
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Maui Native Cultural Center Demolished in Fire
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Argue Like a Philosopher: How to Win a Debate
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What Are Plato’s Arguments Against Democracy?
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4 Villains From the Arthurian Legends Who Really Existed
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The Mind & Body Problem in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
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government in central Africa.
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Tirzah Garwood – A Very British Vision of Marriage, Lovers And Work
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when...
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Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition, writes Graham Bennison. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the conventions of the time, giving up her wood engraving to...
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Jacksonville Confederate Monument Removed
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Trying to Understand...
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Paging Tom and Daisy Buchanan
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Ayn Rand: The Female Founder of Objectivism
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The Enigmatic Archeology of Chichen Itza: A World Wonder
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Strange Magic: Belgium In Colour by Harry Gruyaert
‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also...
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‘Belgium is much more aesthetic. I’m making fun of my people and my own upbringing; colour here also refers to my relationship to my country.’ — Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert’s photographs show his preference for shooting in the street, where he can capture the unexpected, most...
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What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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The Hatfield-McCoy Rivalry of Appalachia: What Started the Feud?
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Native American Groups React on Covering Native Displays
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Who Were the Successors of Constantine the Great?
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7 Rules of Art Collecting: How to Collect Sculptures
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How to Give a Speech
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Who Were the Infamous 1930s Gangsters?
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8 Things You Didn’t Know About Eva Perón
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Mansa Musa: The Golden Ruler of the Mali Empire
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Macron is Safe for the Moment
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But the future worries me.
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What Are the Earliest Manuscripts of the New Testament?
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The Whore of Babylon & Prostitution in the Bible
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review
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Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
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Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods
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Was Roy Lichtenstein an Innovator or a Copycat?
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Postcards From The First Bauhaus Exhibition, 1923
To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s...
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To promote their first major exhibition, from 15 August to 30 September 1923, members of Germany’s Bauhaus design school (der Bauhäusler) produced a set of postcards. Fellow lovers of collecting postcards (deltiology) understand the joy of holding these small picturesque moments...
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The Mystical Drawings of William Thomas Horton (1864-1919)
William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by...
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William Thomas Horton (1864–1919) was one of the Smithers People, a number of artists sponsored by Leonard Smithers (1861–1907),a leading light of the Decadent movement and publisher of upscale pornography. Some starry names were in his orbit, including Max Beerbohm, Aleister...
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New York City In Color – Garry Winogrand’s Street Shots
“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry...
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“I photograph to find out what something will look like photographed” – Gary Winogrand In Garry Winogrand: Winogrand Color we look at some of the New York-born photographer’s 45,000 early colour street photographs in 1950s and 1960s America. In 1970 and Winogrand visited the...
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The Art of the Interesting
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The Art of the Interesting
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The History of Esperanto: A Modern Lingua Franca?
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In Your Face: Photographer Shoots Londoners Up Close And Personal
Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the...
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Using the skills he learned as a table tennis champ, Londoner Paul Trevor wandered through the city’s financial district and its money markets and Brick Lane market getting in people’s faces. These spontaneous closeups appeared in the book and show In Your Face. Like Mark...
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Urbanism in the forest region.
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5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović
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How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?
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10 Must-See Historic Sites in Armenia
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Creating Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa – An Illustrated History
“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who...
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“At 110, everything I create; a dot, a line, will jump to life as never before. To all of you who are going to live as long as I do, I promise to keep my word. I am writing this in my old age. I used to call myself Hokusai, but today I sign my … Continue reading "Creating...
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The Great Flood
...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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...and the Noah of Ancient Greece
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Who Was Vortigern?
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A History Lover’s Guide to Mexico City
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader
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Derrida’s Deconstruction in Literary Analysis: A Detailed Guide
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The Second Battle of El Alamein: How Was Rommel Defeated?
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What Is the Role of the Changeling in Western Literature?
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The Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
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Which Famous Artworks Have Inspired Filmmakers?
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How Does Nan Goldin’s Work Challenge Conventional Photography?
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Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW)
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
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“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986) Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
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Got Live If You Want It: John Scott’s Concert Photographs of Alice Cooper, Bryan Ferry, John Lydon...
Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a...
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Never let go of your dreams because nobody else is going to make them happen. When John Scott was a child he harboured dreams of becoming a photographer. He roamed around his parents’ home and snapped pictures in his head. He had a talent for it which he thought of turning into a...
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10 Artists and Their Indispensable Canine Companions
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What Was the Salon des Refusés?
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The Shining Path Insurgency: Modern Peru’s Darkest Hour
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Plato: A Complete Overview of His Life, Work, and Philosophy
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4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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Has the Christian Bible Been Corrupted?
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4 Roman Emperors Who Died in Battle
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for December
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of December. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans.
Summary Of Changes
100r.co, added a new page: electrical refit, fuel sensor,...
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The Book of Job and the Case for Women’s Rights in the Bible
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